Community-based sex offender management: Combining parole supervision and treatment to reduce recidivism

This article describes a community-based sexual offender management protoco l combining parole supervision and relapse prevention treatment. Outcome da ta are presented regarding the community-based maintenance of 107 sexual of fenders released to the Central Ontario District (Toronto) over an eight ye ar period. Overall rates of 21.0% for general reoffending, 10.3% for violen t reoffending, and 3.7% for Sexual re-offending were observed, with the mea n time of follow-up being 3 years, 7 months. These results are discussed in comparison to results recently reported by other treatment sites. The outc ome in this study suggests that valid risk assessment, in combination with a well-defined supervision strategy (i.e., collaboration of community-based relapse prevention treatment and knowledgeable parole supervision) is an e ffective method for the management of sexual recidivism In the community.